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  <text>&lt;p&gt;by Chris O'Donnell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Freeware system monitors/utilities (&lt;a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/"&gt;http://www.sysinternals.com/&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you haven't already seen these tools, they are certainly worth a look and can be useful for debuggin':&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) File system monitor - &lt;a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml"&gt;http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Logs all I/O access.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2) Handleex - &lt;a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/handle.shtml"&gt;http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/handle.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Who or what has a particular file or dir locked.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3) Registry monitor - &lt;a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/regmon.shtml"&gt;http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/regmon.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Logs all registry access, including failed access attempts (for example when trying to open a key that doesn't exist).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4) TCP monitor - &lt;a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/tdimon.shtml"&gt;http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/tdimon.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Logs all TCP/UDP, find out who's talking/listening to what.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src ="http://flounder_aaeng/blogs/devnotes/aggbug/235.aspx" width = "1" height = "1" /&gt;</text>
  <last_update>2007-10-04T00:41:07.9250806Z</last_update>
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